Achron version 1.0.2.0

Summary: This release significantly improves pathfinding performance and improves a few balance and usability issues.

Achron changelog:

• changed Octopod's weapon ranges: vs ground: 15->19, vs air: 18->17



• increased Octoligo's anti-air weapon strength by a factor of 2.67



• increased Octoligo's price by 16.7%



• lowered cost of Reaph from 7LC to 2LC



• changed chronobombs to ignore units during their rechronoport delay



• changed Reaphs and Foundations to repair units of any species



• added behavior: commanders will slow down when in front, until at least half of subordinates move ahead of them



• changed behavior of grounded air units to auto-rise up when attacking an enemy



• fixed bug: Octos would not attack foundation-based buildings unless manually moved closer



• fixed bug: commjammed and frozen teleporters were not ignored when trying to teleport



• fixed bug: damage multiplier between shin tercrher and sepiligo



• fixed bug: Level Editor crash when switching between opening files of different types



• fixed bug: 0-hp vecgir vehicles could jump into Depot to be repaired instead of blowing up



• marines and SOPs now exit a tank and join in battle if the tank fires an attack



• numerous campaign fixes and improvements

Resequence Engine changelog:

• significant improvement in pathfinding efficiency



• improvements to pathfinding heuristics



• fixed bug where could sometimes see enemy units' objectives, etc.



• increased number of achronal fields in Rescript to 4096



• added unit->ClosestPosition to Rescript



• improved random number source for rendering effects (eliminates patterns sometimes observable on large units' active camo)



• improved double-click unit selection logic (only counts as double-click if on same unit, and less stringint criteria on selecting units outside of hierarchy)



• changed cursor clipping code to attempt to reduce situations where cursor can move outside of window



• mouseover now shows unit highlight



• added ignore_collision_with_unit to Rescript



• added WindowOpacity and WindowColoredByPlayer to skin language



• removed dependency on ALUT for Windows and Linux platforms



• improved edge of fog of war rendering for slopes